Re: The mystery that is Obie and other thoughts

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

Well, when a team doesn't perform to standards it's the coaches fault. I
don't think there's anyone on this list that could handle the game towels
let alone coach the pros. But everyone's entitled to it's opinion. For now
I'll stick with OB.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wright, Cecil" <Cecil.Wright@JUSTICE.GC.CA>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:33 PM
Subject: RE: The mystery that is Obie and other thoughts


> I tried Dan :-)
>
> Perhaps Obie should have said "I would have sent him out longer but he may
> have shit himself". :-)
>
> Cecil Wright, Nova Scotia Community Coordinator
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Berry, Mark S [mailto:berrym@BATTELLE.ORG]
> Sent: March 19, 2002 2:25 PM
> To: 'celtics@igtc.com'
> Subject: RE: The mystery that is Obie and other thoughts
>
>
> Cecil, what is the reasoning? He's saving him embarrassment by saying,
> basically, "He's not sick, he's just not good enough to play more than
five
> minutes...?"
>
> If it was the other way around and he was making up an illness, I could
> understand it. But I just don't see why, if Vitaly were sick, Obie
wouldn't
> just say that. That doesn't make sense.
>
> No, I think Obie just prefers Battie and Eric Williams. He wants to get
> Rodney Rogers on the floor, but he's only willing to play him at backup
> power forward and backup center because, of course, Rodney Rogers has
never
> played small forward in his life and if he did he would have a post-up
> advantage and that, as we all know, is strictly forbidden in Obieball. So
> Rogers gets minutes behind Antoine and the starting center (Battie). He
> should be getting minutes behind Antoine and alongside Antoine at forward.
> But that's obviously not going to happen.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Cecil wrote:
>
> When I coached basketball competitively, the only ones I would tell the
> truth to were my players.  I wouldn't put much stock into what Obie says
> when it comes to VP being "fine".  He could be saving the guy a little
> embarrassment as Dan suggested.  Many of us to do not return to normal
after
> the stomach flu in only a day or so.